And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes? I don't think that they had tomatoes when he comes from, said Bod. And that's just how they talk then.

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When people first arrive in America, they find that their accents are different than the accent of the people who live here. They hear people speaking English with a slightly different accent than their own. I sometimes wish that I could figure out how to speak English without sounding like an American. Americans also sometimes wonder why other people talk funny or act out of character.

I think that is why they act so strange. When someone says something differently than the way you expect, it makes you wonder what they really mean.

Source: The Graveyard Book

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